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Arcadia Falls by Carol Goodman
Category: Fiction
For two hundred years, painters, poets and musicians have come to the Catskill Mountain village of Arcadia Falls to escape the pressures of modern life and pursue their artistic visions, and Arcadia College was founded with a mission to nurture young artists and writers. When Meg Rosenthal gets an offer ...Show more
Incubus by Carol Goodman
Category: Fiction
'This is where all stories start, on the edge of a dark wood'. Dr. Callie McFay's travels to the small college town of Fairwick in New York State for a job interview. Despite it being her second choice she finds herself talked into accepting a job offer from the Folklore Department to teach a class on d ...Show more
River Road by Carol Goodman
Category: Crime Fiction
In the midst of a snowstorm, creative writing professor, Nan Lewis, thinks she hit a deer. But then a police officer tells her that her student, Leia Dawson, has been killed in a hit-and-run on River Road. And there is blood on Nan's car. Nan finds herself reviled by the same community that supported he ...Show more
River RoadA Novel by Carol Goodman
Category: Crime and Thrillers
From the award-winning author of The Lake of Dead Languages comes a chilling new psychological thriller about a professor accused of killing her favorite student in a hit-and-run accident.Nan Lewis—a creative writing professor at a state university in upstate New York—is driving home from a faculty holi ...Show more
Seduction of Water, The by Carol Goodman
Category: Fiction
Iris Greenfeder needs to find the truth about her mother, who died in a hotel fire where she was registered as another man's wife. Some keys are in the powerful fantasies her mother wrote, and others in the memories of others who knew her. Iris begins to untangle the secrets of years before.
The Disinvited Guest - A Novel by Carol Goodman
Category: Fiction
From two-time Mary Higgins Clark Award-winning author Carol Goodman comes a new mystery, about a group of friends isolated on a remote island with a history of foul play. Lucy Harper still has traumatic memories and lingering health problems from the 2020 pandemic. So, when a new virus surfaces years ...Show more
The Drowning Tree by Carol Goodman
Category: Fiction
The stained glass window in Penrose College is Augustus Penrose's legacy to the university he founded for the education of the daughters of the women who worked in his factory, the Rose Glass Works. Depicting his wife, Eugenie, as the Lady of Shallot, it's a mesmerising portrait that has come to embody ...Show more
The Drowning Tree by Carol Goodman
Category: Fiction
Juno McKay, a former alumna of a university which is adorned by a stained glass 'Lady Window', is on the task of restoring this window. Christine Webb, an art historian, is researching it for her thesis. Christine seems to have discovered some new evidence, but before she can discuss her findings with J ...Show more
The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman
Category: Fiction
Jane Hudson thought she would never return to Heart Lake School, where her two roommates were drowned. But now she is back, struggling to adjust to her new life as the events that haunted her memories for so many years begin to recur in front of her eyes.
The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman
Category: Fiction
Surrounded by the lake that gives the school its name, steeped in history and overflowing with the emotions of teenage girls, Heart Lake guards its past - but cannot keep it hidden.
The Metropolitans by Carol Goodman
Category: Children's
On December 7, 1941, four brave 13-year-olds, each of whom has a magical connection with a character from Arthurian legend, engage in a hunt for the missing pages of an ancient manuscript that may hold the key to preventing a second attack on American soil.